ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,584, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Platform and source agnostic data processing for structured and unstructured data sources" was invented by Timothy Haggerty (Henrico, Va.), Yuting Zhou (Reston, Va.), Venu Kumar Nannapaneni (Glen Allen, Va.), Pravin Nair (Addison, Texas) and Hussein Ali Khalif Samao (Henrico, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Data queries that are agnostic to any particular data source may include a data source alias. The data source alias may be replaced with a data source identifier to obtain a data query configured for a target data source. Data processing jobs may b...